From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FyapC-00049L-QI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:51:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k66KnCe6011334; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 20:49:12 GMT Received: from web31710.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31710.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.201.190]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k66Kd6pg007446 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 20:39:07 GMT Received: (qmail 36826 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Jul 2006 20:38:48 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=qDvpCpj/3r3lmo5RVif5S9QcMGu9EkZWl6Sl08xXAPm8CAFw0cZTNi5t5l+2qMexfytN1XJSsZExib/AQEmV5scfwzhBTzlMbHSVUHYFtkvT+Z4a1N8MFPwb8Dw1fkRUwGDMY+ZGTUSj8kQUSKTXd2D+IZoBSBc8tMJ9ZCoGAc4= ; Message-ID: <20060706203848.36824.qmail@web31710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.228.98.186] by web31710.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:38:48 PDT Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 13:38:48 -0700 (PDT) From: maxim wexler Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making sense of emerge --sync To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <7573e9640607061014g733f9177tc447b2f2811c7af8@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 8b7812b8-a02c-4c2d-a6f5-baf2904a574e X-Archives-Hash: 2f2d9d90f22670fc01f09d9bd20aade9 --- Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/5/06, maxim wexler wrote: > > /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2006 > > > > which contains the following: > > > > move net-wireless/madwifi-tools > > net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools > > move net-wireless/madwifi-driver > > net-wireless/madwifi-ng > > These are instructions to portage to move things > around for installed > packages. For example, if someone had > net-wireless/madwifi-tools > installed, well that is now > "net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools" in > portage. So portage needs to update the installed > package database in > /var/pkg/db to reflect the new name, so the user > continues to receive > updates for it. > > See 5.f at: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=5#doc_chap6 > > > "update"? Is 2Q-2006 supposed to have anything to > do > > with emerge -u portage? It doesn't look like it. > But > > then what is it for? > > What you really should have seen was a message that > said "Applying > 2Q-2006 updates" or some such. Not a "go look at > this file" message. > > -Richard Thanks Richard, good link. I didn't mean to imply that I was advised to read that file. I mentioned it because I didn't recognize it from the last time I sync'ed portage. But your reply leads to other questions: IIRC portage didn't say "applying updates", it just mentioned the file at the end of the sync. Don't I have to run update to actually "apply" the updates? And, how do I prevent some updates and allow others. I have bandwidth issues;( -Maxim > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list